Or, if you remember them, they are vapid and tasteless in the telling, like champagne which has been uncorked for a week.

We were one day discussing some question of law at the table, and John, who had not yet begun to study law himself, put in his oar as usual, when Charles Allen, afterward Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, turned on him with some indignation.

"What do you know about it, Johnny?
You don't know what a quantum meruit is." "If you had it, 't would kill you," said Felton.

He was invited to the dinner given by the people of Nevada in honor of their admission as a State, and there was some discussion about a device for a State seal.

Felton suggested that the Irish emblem would be the most appropriate, the "Lyre and shamrock." Once after deciding a case in his favor, Mr.Justice Field said to him: "Felton, I have made great use of your brief in my opinion." "Always do that, Judge," said Felton.